Việt Nam News

Trade unions in HCM City are offering their labourers Tết bonuses, gifts, year-end parties and tickets for buses and trains for the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tết) holiday.

Local people must be involved in the construction process for new-style rural areas, Hoàng Xuân Thành from BTAP (Budget Transparency Accountability Participation) Coalition stated at a seminar in Hà Nội yesterday.

HCM City is expected to treat nearly 4,000 people with HIV/AIDS who have health insurance cards in the first quarter of next year, following the cessation of free treatment for all such patients in the country, according to the city HIV/AIDS Prevention Centre.

Many universities in HCM City have unveiled new enrollment plans for the next academic year.

The HCM City Department of Public Security in collaboration with political institutions will diversify grassroots models to mobilise all citizens for a campaign to strengthen public security and safeguarding the country.

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The HCM City People’s Supreme Court yesterday upheld a 30-year sentence handed down by a first-instance trial for Phạm Công Danh, the former chairman of the board of Việt Nam Construction Bank (VNCB), on charges of wrongdoing and violations of banking rules.

The number of Vietnamese working overseas totalled 140,000 this year, increasing nearly 7 per cent over last year, according to the Overseas Worker Management Department.

The Hà Nội Transport Corporation (Transerco) on Tuesday introduced four new bus routes to strengthen links with suburban areas.

A policeman in Phan Thiết City in the central coastal province of Bình Thuận was stabbed to death while on duty this morning, reported online newspaper baotintuc.com.vn.

Farmers in Trà Vinh Province’s coastal areas expanded the breeding of shrimp and other aquatic species to an additional 1,700ha of mangrove forests this year, according to the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

A charity worker who has been helping disabled children in Việt Nam for almost two decades has been recognised by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for her outstanding contribution to society.

 Passenger bus network have been developed extensively in the districts, wards and towns to encourage people to use public transport to avoid traffic congestion as well as help the environment.

Doctors have performed a successful kidney transplant on a 15-year-old boy with kidney failure at Pediatrics Hospital No.2 in HCM City, the country’s first organ transplant on a child using a donated kidney from a brain-dead adult.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Bureau in Cambodia has become a prestigious news agency in the eyes of Cambodian readers and serves as a bridge between the Cambodian Ministry of Information and other news agencies.

HCM City next year will focus more on attracting foreign investment to further socio-economic development, especially in the technology, education, culture and tourism fields, a city official said at a foreign affairs meeting yesterday in the city.

More than 300 people voluntarily registered to donate their tissues, organs and bodies after death for scientific purposes at the ceremony of Tissue and Organ Donation held in HCM City.

HCM City Medical University Hospital on Monday announced that its doctors removed a 7-cm-long parasite from the brain of a 52-year-old man.